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Mentor & Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets There is no ending like the ending of James Wright’s “…Hammock…” poem, a master class in sticking that landing! It’s perfect!

Mentor & Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets I think of the poem's close as the final note of a bell rung on a cold dark night, something that carries on into an unknown and ever-widening world. I ask myself: Is it a loud note or a quiet one? What emotion does the lingering sound evoke? What emerges in the silence after?

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For Mentor & Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets I sat with Amanda Gunn @KathyFaganPoet and Tongo Eisen-Martin to discuss poetic closure. I’ve learned a great deal from these poets over the years, and this roundtable was particularly revelatory mentorandmuse.net/roundtable-on-…

Happy to share this Mentor & Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets issue on poetic closure with Lawrence Raab, Alina Stefanescu, K. Iver, Orlando Ricardo Menes, Jim May, @KathyFaganPoet, Tongo Eisen-Martín, Amanda Gunn, and DS Waldman . 🙏And more thanks to @poetry_daily for today’s shout-out mentorandmuse.net

Menes: “I prefer to end my #poems with a resonant image that loops, knots, and cuts the stitch of #words. My sense is that this approach creates a middle space between open and closed, one that allows the poem to end with a pliant eloquence.” #closure shorturl.at/qKMQU

The wrong ending can sound contractual & wooden, like ending a first date not with a kiss but a robotic statement like “I would like to continue to see you in more social settings & perhaps eventually have a long-term relationship with you.”-@jamesdavismay shorturl.at/ghrW2

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"A poem is built on silences as well as sounds. And it imposes a silence audible as a laugh, a sigh, a groan." -Robert Hayden, "How It Strikes a Contemporary"